Facebook – the new online surveillance tool?

Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan – WSJ.com

Social networking is really booming. Sites like Myspace and Facebook allow users to upload tons of information about themselves, photos, embarrasing admissions and all kinds of stuff.
Now Facebook has worked out a way to marketise this aspect of the clickstream.
I think we should all think carefully before posting anything about ourselves online.

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This entry was posted on Monday, August 27th, 2007 at 9:18 am and is filed under social media, social networks, surveillance economy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to Facebook – the new online surveillance tool?

  1. A web of mundanity? « Ethical Martini says:
    June 8, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    […] word for the everyday) and in their ordinariness we start to integrate them in our routines, or create new routines around them. This is what my examples […]

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